Best settings for this image to appear on DVD?

[Randall Raymond]

You would need two rectangles with the space between them to create a window for the current cord. Here’s something that I put together doing the same thing but using Photoshops layers in Vegas:
https://barrister-gardens.com/

[Edward Troxel]

For the highlighting, try this:

Track 1: Black generated media with opacity lowered to around 30% (adjust as needed) with a Cookie Cutter effect.
Track 2: Video clip

This will dim everywhere except where cutout by the Cookie Cutter. You can keyframe the placement of the cookie cutter as needed.

Edward Troxel

[Mike Costantini]

Why black generated media if it’s to be a highlighter effect? shouldn’t it be yellow? I’ve never used the cookie cutter tool so I’ll try and mess with it and see what happens..

[Mike Costantini]

wow that is really awesome! how the heck did you create something like that? it looks like it’s a flash file though? I think that is a bit more complex than what I want, just a simple highlight effect.. Jeditdv mentioned the cookie cutter so I”m going to mess with that and see what happens..

[Randall Raymond]

Simple. Lay all eight images onto a widescreen frame sized canvas. Import that into Vegas. Since each image is on it’s own layer import those one by one into Vegas. Adjust the transparency of the main image on one track and place each simgle image layer on a track above it with no transparency. Bingo! The images appear to turn on and off as though back-lit.

[Mike Costantini]

Wow I don’t know if I’m dumb or what but I have no clue what you’re talking about??

“Lay all eight images onto a widescreen frame sized canvas” – – What eight images?

“Import that into vegas” — what is “that” ?

“Since each image is on it’s own layer import those one by one into Vegas” –I thought we already imported “that” into vegas?

“Adjust the transparency of the main image on one track and place each simgle image layer on a track above it with no transparency. Bingo! The images appear to turn on and off as though back-lit.”

The reason I quoted everything in your post is because not one thing made sense to me, are we talking about the same subject?

[Randall Raymond]

Ha! You said you don’t use PhotoShop – understandably, it’s sounding like Greek to you. Most editors use it daily. PhotoShop Essentials can do the same thing I described (I think). It’s not very expensive.

[Mike Costantini]

well I understood the terminology, I just didn’t understand how anything you said applied to what I’m trying to do here..

[Edward Troxel]

The black would be used to “dim” the main part of the video allowing the cut out section to remain bright. I have not looked at your clip as a comparison, though.

Edward Troxel

[Stephen Mann]

“Wow I don’t know if I’m dumb or what but I have no clue what you’re talking about??”

Not dumb at all.

I’ve been using Vegas for over four years and I am learning something from this thread.

The greatest thing about Vegas is that there are almost always two or more ways to accomplish the same effect. (And I have yet to master the cookie cutter….)

Steve M.

Stephen Mann,
MannMade Digital Video,
San Jose, CA